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Boulder County owns or holds conservation easements on over 115,000 acres of land. These holdings are made possible by seven county sales tax and sale tax extensions that have been approved by the voters since 1993. There are three open-space sales tax measures in effect through 2029-2034, including one perpetual .05% tax for maintenance of open-space properties. Property tax revenues also contribute around $4 million annually for open-space acquisitions, with some additional amount going to ope...

Open Forum letters to the editor for Tuesday, October 24, 2023.

We have paid well over $60 million since the 0.4% FasTracks tax was implemented almost 20 years ago. It's time to accept the reality that rail will never extend to Longmont. Those who are still demanding a train are desperately clinging to the false promises of the past. Ridership numbers will never justify the immense cost of bringing rail to Longmont.

The county is not proposing any new taxes but instead asking voters to extend existing ones.

Boulder County is now accepting applications for 53 open volunteer positions on 16 of the county's advisory boards and commissions.

Office and we understand people dont know whether its a state issue, county issue, so we do the best to help them. i think the point is that it is difficult to -- we dont have those relationships with any staff over there. theres been frankly no attempt to connect with our staff from them, so were going to do what we can do by utilizing other federal representatives to make sure we help our constituents with their problems. >> are you getting a sense, state senator martins, about how the constit...

Stephen Emery won election as county attorney, but resigned "effective immediately." The county commissioners appointed current office holder Mark Gruenes for a second time.

A housing market with short supply and high demand does not bode well for a local workforce. That truth is evident in Colorado’s High Country, where voters expressed their frustration with the lack of affordable...

A housing market with short supply and high demand does not bode well for a local workforce. That truth is evident in Colorado’s high country, where voters expressed their frustration with the lack of affordable...

Democrats? >> some of the problem is this is a county by county issue. 67 counties, they are the ones administering a lot of the specifics. in allegany county if youve written the wrong date on your ballot they say come down and fix it. there are other counties where that is not the issue, where their guidance and reading of the law is that what theyve got to do is just not count those ballots and set them aside. on top of all that there is a court process ongoing here. the state supreme court s...